Urgent teletype (NR013 SE) Seattle to WFO, New York, Los Angeles re D.B. Cooper letter
Document date 13 December 1971
Also filed at: Part 54 p. 427 · Part 66 p. 242 · Part 101 p. 263 · Part 106 p. 84
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-16:003-003 Document: Urgent teletype (NR013 SE) Seattle to WFO, New York, Los Angeles re D.B. Cooper letter Id: Cooper-Part-16:003-003 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-16%3A003-003 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 16 p. 3 (DB Cooper-4307), Teletype, dated 13 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-16%3A003-003
NR013 SE PLAIN 1029 PM URGENT 12/13/71 FEE TO WFO NEW YORK LOS ANGELES FROM SEATTLE (164-81) IP
NORJAK.
RE D.B. COOPER LETTER.
THE SEATTLE TIMES, SEATTLE, HAS TURNED OVER TO THE SEATTLE OFFICE A LETTER RECEIVED BY THE NEWSPAPER TODAY ADDRESSED TO THE MANAGING EDITOR OF THE SEATTLE TIMES, BEARING THE POST MARK "U.S. POSTAL SERVICE. WA NINE EIGHT ZERO" WITH THE DATE DECEMBER ELEVEN, SEVENTY-ONE. POSTMARK INDICATES LETTER WAS MAILED IN THE GREATER SEATTLE AREA, BUT OUTSIDE THE CITY OF SEATTLE ITSELF. THE LETTER SIGNED "D.B. COOPER," HE CLAIMS HE LEFT NI FINGERPRINTS, THAT HE WORE A TOUPEE, AND WORE PUTTY MAKE-UP.
LETTER INDICATES COPIES WERE SENT TO THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE LOS ANGELES TIMES.
WFO, NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES ARE REQUESTED TO OBTAIN, IF POSSIBLE, THE COPY OF THE LETTER RECEIVED BY THE INDICATED NEWSPAPER AND FORWARD SAME TO LABORATORY FOR APPROPRIATE LABORATORY EXAMINA- TION, INCLUDING USE OF THE TYPEWRITER AND FOR LATENT FINGERPRINT EXAMINATION. SEATTLE IS FORWARDING TODAY ITS COPY OF INSTANT LETTER.
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